Sand-reel for oil or artesian wells.



N0. 70|,3|5. Patented June 3, 1902 v H. W. EATON, 1B. 8|. A. BENSON. SAND REEL FUR UIL 0B ARTESIAN WELLS.

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NITED SATES i-IIRAM w. EATON, JR, AND ANDREW BENSON, or BRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

SAND-REEL FOR OIL OR ARTESIAN WELLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,315, dated June 3, 1902.. ApplioationiiledMarcl14,1898. Serial No. 672,504. on, model.)

T at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HIRAM W. EATON, Jr. and ANDREW BENSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Bradford, in the county of McKean and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sand-Reels for Oil or Artesian WVells, of which upon this reel the sand-line is spooled, the

latter serving to elevate and lower such linebailer rapidly and at will of the operator. These reels are mounted to rotate freely upon end gudgeons or trunnions, are equipped with suitable friction and brake wheels, and are afiorded a slight horizontal movement for the purpose of bringing said friction-wheel into contact with an ordinary driving-wheel or that from which power is transmitted through the band-wheel, whereby the entire reel is rotated as occasion demands.

The especial features of novelty in the present instance reside in the structural arrangement of the friction-wheel, the brake-wheel, the reelshaft, and the relative arrangement of said parts. To this extent the present ap plication for Letters Patent is related to others of a series filedsimultaneously herewith on the 1th day of March, 1898, and numbered, respectively, 672,502, 672,503, 672,505.

The invention will be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims following.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, Figure 1 represents our improved sand-reel in side elevation detached, showing thereel proper, a frictional driving-wheel, a brake-wheel, and end gndgeons, whereby the reel is rotatably mounted. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section through all parts illustrated by Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the reel-shaft on line A B, Fig. 1, showing an end elevation of the driving-wheel. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of.

a hub,its radial arms or spokes, and rim which supports the cants of which the drivingwheel and brake-wheel are composed. Fig. 5 represents in perspective one outer course of cants and several inner sections arranged with joints broken, as in the construction of saidxwheels. Figs. 6 and 7 are fragmentary views of the reel-shaft in longitudinal section and inside elevation, respectively,illustrating a modified form of the supporting-g udgeons,same having a'scr'ew-thread connection withthe shaft and being further secured by means of cross-bolts. Fig. 8 is also a fragmentary view showing a longitudinal section of a reel shaft having integral gudgeons swaged thereon. Fig. 9 is a cross-sectional view through a reel-shaft adjacent to the spoofing-guides, showing a modified arrangement of one guide in end elevation.

Reference being had to the drawings and numerals thereon 1 indicates the reel-shaft,by preference of hollow wrought tubing, closed at itsopposite ends by gudgeons 3 3 in screwthreaded connection, upon which the reel is journaled to rotate freely. Gudgeons 3 3 may then be further secured'to shaft 1 by bolts 6 6, passing throughsaid shaft and gudgeonbody, as shown. Upon the hollow spoolingshaft or reel-shaft'l are adjustable flanges or spooling-guides 23 23, preferably of disk form, which can be moved to and from eachother to accommodate either a hemp or wire sand-line, as required, and'to adjust the reel to the size of the coil according to the length and character of the line, and said spoofing-flanges are after adjustment rigidly held by keys or wedges, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

In the outer oscillating end of shaft 1 is milled alongitudinal key-seat 7, which is utilized for securing in position a friction-wheel and a brake-wheel of novel construction, both of which will now be described in the order named.

The numeral 10 indicates the hub of the friction-wheel, provided with a key-seat 11 for securing it to shaft 1 by means of": a key 8, driven between the two and resting partly in seat 7 and partly in the seat 11. Radiating from hub 10 are integral spokes 12, reinforced by ribs 13 and merging into a rim 14., the latter perforated by a series of bolt-holes best shown by Fig. 5.

15 for purposes that will later appear. The ribs 13 terminate in shoulders on each side of the rim 14, which connects the radial arms of the spider, (see cross-section of spoke 12, Fig. 2, and side elevation, Fig. 3,) which shoulders or ends of the ribs 13 afford supports for the inner courses of' the arc-shaped or segmental cants 17. Surrounding and mounted upon the said rim 14 is the beveled friction-surface 9 of the wheel, comprising a laminated and overlapping series of areshaped or segmental members or cants, as The outer series of these segmental cants 16 16 are by preference of pine or hard wood and serve to confine and retain the intermediate sections 17, which are of pine, hard wood, or compressed paper, though preferably of compressed paper about an inch in thickness, though of correspond ing shape, and, as stated, are arranged in overlapping relation throughout for the purpose of breaking joints between sections. All of the sections aforesaid are perforated by bolt-holes, as at 26, and are finally secured together by means of the through-bolts 18, which pass, also through the holes 15 in the supporting-rim 14.

Upon shaft 1, beyond wheel 9, is located a brake-wheel similar in construction to said friction-wheel, having a central hub 10, radial spokes 12, connected bya rim and provided with ribs terminating at the rim to form shoulders or supports for the arc-shaped cants or segmental friction members 21 of pine, hard Wood, or compressed paper, flanked upon either side by a series of overlapping pine or hard wood sections 20 and secured together by a series of bolts 22, as shown by Fig. 2. The hub 1O is then secured in position by means of the key 8 in like manner as hub 10 of the friction-wheel and may be fastened in addition by bolts 27, passing transversely through shaft 1.

By Figs. 6 and 7 is illustrated a modified form of gudgeon for supporting the reelshaft, having an internal thread out upon its body portion and secured in addition by the characteristic through-bolts 6.

Fig. 8 also shows a modification of the lastnamed feature and comprises a gudgeon 3, formed by or swaged out of the shaft 1 itself.

Fig. 9 is still another modification showing a skeleton form of spool-guide made of strips 24, crossing the shaft 1 at right angles and affixed thereto by bolts 25, passing through each pair of strips and the supporting-shaft 1, as shown.

The invention being substantially as set forth, its use and operation in the process of elevating or lowering a sand-line is similar to that heretofore employed. It will be observed, however, that the peculiar construction of friction-wheel 9 insures a marked degree of durability and freedom from wear, and the 'use of a brake-wheel such as shown avoids all strains upon the head during descent of a bailer or during a reverse motion of the sand-reel.

The invention being substantially as hereinbefore set forth, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a sand-reel, the combination with a sand-reel shaft, of a friction-wheel comprising radial arms connected by a rim, a series of courses of arc-shaped segmental cants arranged to break joints and applied to the opposite sides of the-rim, the outer course of cants being of wood and the inner courses of compressed paper, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. In a sand-reel, the combination with a suitable reel-shaft, of a friction or brake wheel comprising radial arms connected by a rim and provided with ribs which terminate in shoulders on the rim, and a series of courses of arc-shaped segmental cants applied on the opposite sides of said rims the inner courses of the cantsseated on the shoulders formed by the ribs of the radial arms, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. In a friction-wheel for sand-reels, the combination with a suitable central support of a series of courses of arc-shaped segmental cants arranged to break joint and applied on opposite sides of said central support, the outer course of said cants being of wood, and the intermediate cants of compressed paper, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

HIRAM W. EATON, JR.

ANDREW BENSON.

WVitnesses: BEN R. HAGAN, F. W. HASTINGS. 

